The Martini Girls Studio Blogs

Earlier this year we were all very pleased that Milwaukee County Parks and the League of Milwaukee Artists have joined forces and are hosting the second annual Artists In the Garden, a Plein Air event and fine art fair to benefit the Boerner Botanica... 

The latest news from the Martini Girls: Marcia Hochstetter is enjoying the Northwoods at her house up in Winchester. I recently visited Marcia and her husband, Jim, with Wendy Larkin Sostock, and we had a blast painting together. Debbie Callahan j... 

The summer hit this year on Memorial Day Weekend, like it does every year, but this year we actually had excellent weather! So why aren't my window boxes planted yet? And why doesn't the water feature have any water in it? Well, I've been busy--cr... 

The summer hit this year on Memorial Day Weekend, like it does every year, but this year we actually had excellent weather! So why aren't my window boxes planted yet? And why doesn't the water feature have any water in it? Well, I've been busy--cr... 

I just love art journaling, and creating art journals from just about anything--watercolor paper, gelli prints, old books, cereal boxes, facial tissue boxes, and junk mail. I am pretty passionate about it, so much so, that the Martini Girls, Marcia ... 

The Martini Girls have been enjoying creating art with our friends. The Wednesday Journal club and Saturday Open studio has been going very well. Good art, good friends 

Beautiful weather to get out and walk, enjoy nature, and paint. Enjoy! 

M1 and M2 sketched at The Corner Bakery with friends from the Milwaukee Sketch Club. Good food, good company 

Very dreary outside today here in Wauwatosa. Can't wait to get back outside painting. I am too wimpy to go out when it is cold. 

Well, the temperatures here in Milwaukee have definitely gone South with wind chills in the minus double digits. Despite the frigid temps, The Martini Girls will persevere with Art Journal Wednesday this evening at the gallery! What is an Art Jou... 

It is indeed cold out there but the Martini Girls will still have their Art Journal Club Wednesday January 13th and our Open Studio on January 16th. "Art will NOT be frozen out" 

I am in Naples, Florida for the next few months and am busy working on new paintings, for exhibits that we have during the spring and summer and for our gallery. I am still doing my mixed media work, which keeps me on my toes...combining different ... 

I will be escaping the cold and snow of the Wisconsin winter in a few days, gone for three months, to paint, read and of course, float in the pool. Florida is an alternate universe, palm trees look unnatural to a midwestern girl and lunch on the pa... 

For quite a few years now, I've been collecting a wide variety of old rusty junk. I didn't know, at first, what I was going to do with it, but last summer, I was finally inspired. My husband made the substrate, and I proceeded to cover it with fabr... 

What's going on at the Martini Girls Gallery? Lots of ideas are being tossed around regarding our 2016 exhibit at the Art*Bar, for starters. And This week it's Art Journal Wednesday from 6:00 to 8:30. Last Saturday we had Open Studio, and severa... 

We (Marcia Hero, Debbie Callahan, and Marcia Hochstetter ie: The Martini Girls), started having Art Journal Wednesdays at our gallery in Wauwatosa, WI. Marcia Hero is addicted to art journaling, and it is refreshing to layer paint, collage, ephemera... 

We've been working furiously to coordinate and plan our Summer 2013 event “In Your Face”, a fabulous and unique collection of professional artists' self- portraits, which will be held at the Art*Bar Riverwest from June 14, 2013 to July 18, 2013. Th... 

Is this the door to no where or the door to everywhere? Is the cup half full or half empty? For me it depends on which day of the week you ask me, a sunny day or a cranky day....in general I prefer to think of it as a door to everywhere. Possib... 

I have had a bit of artist block lately, i have been cleaning house instead.....I hope I snap out of it soon.............I am tired of cleaning........ 

This is a picture of our small, intimate art gallery space, we work in close quarters and overall, somehow that works just fine for the three of us. We are self represented artists and there are no other artists exhibiting in our gallery. Over the ... 

Wecome to our new website. We know that our friend, Wendie Thompson, always give good advice, and when she recommended this site for our gallery, well, we just had to see for ourselves. Hope you enjoy; we're still in the process of uploading images... 

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